Chapter three: New house, new names, old friend and red shoes
The morning came quick, for Izuku Midoriya. He had slept the best he had ever slept in what felt like and most likely was years. Kacchan was already awake and he could hear the shower running, Kacchan's bed felt like a marshmallow. He loved it!
Kacchan came out seeing Izuku was awake he sighed
" you need the rest. I'm happy you slept while."
Izuku beamed and the boy
"I missed you Kacchan!"
"Me too you damn nerd.. I need to talk to you about something. Your mom… she-"
Before he could finished Izuku cut him off
"I know Kacchan. I know….. I-I was there.. I DIDN'T DO IT THO!"
Izuku said waving his hand furiously.
"I'm sorry.. you had to see that.."
Katauki said sitting down next to Izuku.
"Oh! Thank you for letting me borrow your clothes! I'll be leaving here soon! But could I borro-"
" keep them. They are my old clothes so they don't fit anymore….. wait a second what do you mean you're leaving? Where are you gonna go?!"
"Kacchan I can't stay here with you! But I'm sure I'll find somewhere. besides one of my quirks is a literal luck generator though it barely ever works.."
Izuku says smiling
"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN ONE OF YOUR QUIRKS!?"
(KATSUKI KEEP IT DOWN IN THERE!)
His mother yelled from the kitchen
"YEAH YEAH WHATEVER OLD HAG!"
(YOU BETTER WATCH YOUR MOUTH BRAT- now Mitsuki sweet heart I thought we agreed no more yellin- SHUT UP!)
"Your parents are… energetic. I seee they haven't changed."
"You Still Did Not Answer My Question"
Katsuki said voice stern.
" well you see…"
After about two hours of talking with only a few interruptions from Kacchan, had told his best friend everything. (Other than the vigilante part but that was for another time)
"I'm sorry"
Katsuki said pulling Izuku in for a hug.
Katsuki stood up and went to his closet grabbing a Hoodie and passing it to Izuku.
"you can use that, but we will go shopping together and you will get more clothes. I can tell I won't be able to stop you from leaving, I doubt you remember this, but when we were younger I promised to protect you.
I failed but I won't again so if you need me FIND ME. but please try to be safe and if you don't find a place to stay tonight, you can always come back here. You can always stay here with me."
Katsuki then grabbed a notebook and pencil.
"You mentioned that your father made you write analysis on hero's to help him take them down, you said you liked taking notes and writing so you can have this, but I want to write a few things for you first."
Izuku looked at him curiously
" I wrote my number here and I also added my address just in case.. I also added your old address if you wanted to go. There's no one there currently, but eventually they will start taking everything out and probably donating it since They think you are dead and since your mom is dead and no one else is stepping up to claim the house and the stuff inside. so if you want to go there and take anything you want to do it soon. The name of my school, if you want to join my school, aldera Of course you should come with your new identity Hanako right? The extras at my school they don't like quirkless so I'll protect you. I'm sure your mom would've wanted you to go to that school because our mom wanted us to go to school together. I'll also give you my email just in case."
"Woah that's a lot… thank you.. Kacchan. Really.! Once I get a phone or a computer or whatever I managed to get I'll write you. So you know it's me the code word is Rochambeau dig me?"
"Rochambeau?"
"yeah, it's random but that way if someone pretends to be me or you have a feeling it's not me ever then you ask what's the word"
They hug one last time (relax have a drink with me, I'm listening to Hamilton sorry for the references lmao) and then Izuku is off.
About two weeks after he had faked his death and seen Kacchan and Izuku had finally found a place to call home. it was an abandoned apartment complex, with a few others living on different floors Izuku lived on the top floor.
The others always stayed on their floor, and Izuku did the same it was nice!
Izuku started exploring the rooms, it was not even that bad!
Apparently the complex was abandoned due to an apparent leak of some poison, it was cleared after awhile but the people who had lived there before did not want to come back so it was abandoned.
Apparently one of the people who had moved in on one of the other floors had set up some kind of electricity and water thing. When he asked the young girl who was 11 she responded with a short explanation.
she had said that she reached out to the old owners of the place and they agreed to turn on the power and water and pay for it all as long as she didn't go to court with the truth
And as long as she didn't get money from whoever stayed there.
Izuku found out later that the truth was the owner had purposefully tried to poison everyone and she had proof somehow.
He found out later that his neighbors that lived on the other floors were also runaways. They were close to his age apparently and he had seen them a few times once he even saw one of them wearing a strange costume.
Izuku made a note of that so they could maybe hang out sometime. Izuku did need someone he could talk to! First he would need to change his appearance for his new identity Hanako Suzuki. He was planning on just dying his hair black. which means he will need money.
So far, even just finding a place was lucky. And he choked it up to being thanks to his luck quirk. He knew it was activated by emotion but he wasn't sure which one.
He was looking through the rooms making note of which rooms had things he could use when he saw an empty room. It was the biggest room and in the best condition!
He chose that room as his bedroom.
The room was nice.
It had a bed that was covered in some kind of wrap, it was probably new when it got there.
He found some blankets he had found in the other rooms and pillows and he made the bed nice and comfy.
He checked out the rest of the room
There was a bathroom with a shower a toilet a sink and a shelf
He would have to find anything he needed either in the other rooms or he would have to go shopping.
There was a small living room with a table and 4 chairs, the kitchen was nice with a stove and an oven, There was even a mini fridge!
There was a bunch of cabinets with a few pans and pots.
By the bed, there was a little nightstand and on the other side a closet for clothes.
Izuku opened the closet and was surprised to find a black bag inside, he took the bag out and opened it on his lap.
For a second, he thought it was an illusion but right there in the bag was About 40 stacks of money.
Izuku's eyes widened as he counted it. He was surprised there was a total of 50 stacks each one with $1000 which gave him a total of 50,000 dollars.
He would have to trade it out for yen but that was no problem! He was set!
Izuku spent the rest of the day cleaning his room and taking the things he liked from the other rooms. He found a box of instant Ramen in one room and found some squish mellows in another room which she added to his bed to make it more cozy!
Found some fairy lights which were adorable so we just had to add them.
He found a very nice desk made of wood in a room that seems to be the old room of a writer!
In that room he also found a lot of supplies for writing many notebooks, pencils, and pens it was a dream! And it was such good quality!
He put that in his room. He found another room that was pretty empty across from his room, so he decided that would be his vigilante base.
That room connected to another room which unlike the first room stuff in it. It looked like a bunch of storage boxes he open them up, each filled to the top with rubber ducks.
To his surprise they were all green and orange Izuku thought it was funny and put it into a different room so he could use that room to keep his vigilante gear.
Izuka now had his room which was the biggest he had his base for vigilante work which he added a smaller desk that he had found in another room plus a little chair then in the storage room that was connected to it he did not put anything other than a few closets which would be for his gear.
He continued looking through the other rooms he found a guitar still in its case, he also found some beginners music and a guide to playing the guitar. The person also had an amp a bunch of pics in a box for the guitar and some speakers!
He brought it all to his room but when he got to the room, he decided to put it in the room next to his making that room his new music room.
The room next to his room, now the music room was rather small, but it had good sound so it worked! The room originally had a small bed with some squish mellows a little table, some coloured pens and pencils.
There was also a bunch of pictures of a little girl and her mother and when Izuku saw it it reminded him of his mother so he took everything he did not want and put it in the farthest room, his storage room.
Going through the rest of the rooms, he found some canned food and cat food and a few cat toys, maybe he should get a cat? Maybe he could just feed the cats that lives near by that might be a better idea…
He found a few other things, some jewelry, some cups, plates, books, clothes and more.
It was getting late however and his wounds from the escape were not good ones.
So Izuku had food but he was currently out of bandages and ibuprofen, Izuku decided to take a 10 dollar bill that he had found and go to the local convenience store to get what he needed.
It was a quiet walk to the store with a few confused glances at him, probably wondering what a 8 year old was doing walking around alone
Once he walked inside he went straight to the aisle where they kept the ibuprofen and once he found that he started looking for the bandages.
"Oh sorry little listener! You alright?"
Izuku froze because he knew he had bumped into someone but did he have to bump into Present Mic of all people?!
"Y-yes sir I-I'm okay! S-sorry for bumping into you!" Izuku said bowing slightly.
"no worries little guy just watch where your going" Mic smiled softly at him and then turned his head to see a some creepy and tired homeless guy.. wait he recognised him!
Izuku stiffened when he saw Aizawa, he must be a hero! But he looked so tired and his stare reminded him of his father's stare.
"Let's go h-Mic.. come on"
The tired man said, for a moment it seemed had almost said something else other than Mic.
They must be friends and that's why THE Present Mic would be someone who looked REALLY tired. Izuku thought that is why they were together right?..
Mic turned to Izuku and gave him a smile before leaving with the tired man.
…
By the time Izuku was done thinking the two had already left so Izuku grabbed the bandages and went to pay.
After paying he headed to his makeshift home only stopping when he saw a cute cat but otherwise
heading straight back to his place.
Once he arrived he went to his room and put his things away he had one dose of ibuprofen and put new bandages on his wounds as well.
He would need to start saving the money that he already had from the bag.
Hizashi and Shota were out to restock on bandages and cat food/treats when they split up to get the things separately, Shota got the cat food while Hizashi got the bandages.
Shota had got the treats and food for the cats and decided to check if Hizashi got the bandages yet or if perhaps someone had seen him and asked for anautograph, this is why they never went out in costume.
The fans were not a problem for Shota since he was an underground hero, but for Hizashi it was quite annoying and they both knew this well.
Shota had finally spotted where Hizashi was only to see a kid next to him who looked… scared..? panicked? No that couldn't be, this kid was only what? 6?10?
"Let's go H-Mic… come on"
Shit he almost said Hisashi!
He already let it slip a few times but he couldn't have it happen in front of a child!
Kids had big mouths especially young teens.
Shota knew this well.
This kid however… there was something off that Shota couldn't place and wait…
why was he in this aisle?
He had ibuprofen but it looked like he had been looking for something, before Shota could think anymore about it, Hizashi dragged him off to go pay.
:.—it's time for a time skip!—.:
2 years later. Izuku had settled in to his new home. Kacchan had told him each subject he needed to catch up on for school. It was tough but Izuku was able to learn everything he needed to buy the end of Kacchan's summer with a few weeks left to apply to aldera.
Izuku had started training with his neighbors which he found out were vigilantes. They had told him about A café they worked at that was for vigilantes or anyone who needed a job. The four kids that Izuku had learned were
Amane Nakame they nonbinary one who was also quirkless
Celeste Minxu her quirk would let whatever she drew come to life or become real
Irene Kinely her quirk was bear no further explanation needed
Tango Prismatang her quirk was singsong and she could use telekinesis as long as she was singing
He started working at The Vigilant Cat a year ago and it was nice and paid well, it was a cat café which was awesome!
Although he made another identity for the café it was worth it!
Akari Manaka
Sex: male
Age: 18
Quirk: A-8 quirk makes user appear their age minus 8 years.
He works at the vigilante cat cafe
(Did this little gacha thing:3)
Sometimes Kacchan would come and they would hang out with the cats on Izuku's break.
There was also this purple haired kid who came every week, he always had bruises and barely talked but it was nice to see how he got along with the cats.
He later learned his name was Shinsou and he apparently had been going there for years.
From the $50,000 Izuku had found he ended up using 5,000 on electronics like his computer, his phone and his headphones which Kacchan had said he should buy.
He also used $5000 on food throughout the year.
He used 10,000 on clothes and shoes as well as buying everything for his vigilante outfit plus spares.
With the 30,000 he had left he saved it to pay for some online classes on coding and some tutoring sessions as well as first aid kits, plus he used some to buy makeup and other supplies he may need for his fake identity's along with buying weapons for his vigilante costume.
(What weapons Verdant uses is yet to be announced)
After all of that he was left with about 10000 which he used as backup
For coding and hacking, he had found an online course a bit after he turned 9 and started learning from there.
He knew that to be a good vigilante he needed many different skills. Therefore coding and hacking were a great place to start!
…
Izuku had been testing his hacking skills on the cameras around his neighborhood technically as a vigilante but he was gonna be a vigilante and no one will know right?
Wrong.
Izuku had been switching between cameras hacking as he went when he came across some guy holding a knife to a lady's throat.
Izuku panicked what was he supposed to do!? He couldn't reveal himself as a vigilante yet! He didn't even have a name! Plus he still needed to train more. And he hasn't even told Kacchan!
He got an idea and started searching the cameras for any hero who may be patrolling the area he was going so fast he almost missed the no.7 pro hero.
"Kamui woods perfect!".
He started to hack the coms of the hero's failing the first try but succeeding after another minute, immediately after he hacked in to the comms he spoke.
"Kamui woods. Hello! A man a block from here on XXXX street is holding a knife to a nice lady would you care to lend a hand?"
As Izuku said this he could hear his voice getting distorted even on his end, that was good so Izuku didn't have to worry about them figuring out who he was, yet.
Kamui woods only nodded and ran to where Izuku had told him to probably guessing it was a pro hero or maybe an intern.
Kamui took down the villain easily tying them up and calling the police and then he moved on but as he was walking away, he pressed on his com and said
"hey you there?" In a calm voice
Izuku scrambled to answer
"Y-yes sir!"
"Good job telling me where that villain was You got a name?"
Izuku froze a name? He hadn't thought of one! He thought for a moment then answered,
"The analyst"
There was a pause which scared Izuku did Kamui Think that he was a villain was he gonna arrest him?!
Well he will have to catch him if that's the case and his voice couldn't be made out over the bad quality of the audio on top of that Izuku had masked his location completely and he-
"Okay analyst thanks for your help!"
Wait, what did he? He just thank me!?
The boy's head was spinning he was confused.
Why did the hero Thank him? what?
He had hacked into their comms that was illegal!
Or maybe the hero really did think Izuku a hero or sidekick or something!
He tricked a pro. Maybe his father, was right maybe he really can't do anything right…
…
After a week the same thing happened with but with death arms this time, Izuku was bored however so he was just scrolling through cams when he saw a young boy being robbed.
So Izuku did the most reasonable thing he could do, hacked into the coms again and called a pro.
He was asked his name again and he gave the Analyst, it wasn't a bad name but Izuku would have liked to think about it more but oh well it's not like it's going to be permanent, he could still think of a vigilante name he had time.
This ended up happening more times which helped him begin to make a name for himself in the hero community as the Analyst.
Izuku wasn't too proud of it since it was illegal but no one seemed to question him, until someone did.
Izuku had just helped Kamui woods when Kamui asked
"Hey Analyst I was talking about you with detective Tsukauchi, we were trying to find what agency you work at, no luck so far. Would you mind telling us?"
Izuku gulped he knew it would come to this.
"Oh I'm not a hero.."
Kamui paused,
"Oh.. are you a hero student then?"
Izuku thought for a second before answering
"No… a v-vigilante"
Kamui hummed
"Okay then, well if you wanna join a hero you can always join a rehab program you're skills would be very useful. Think bout it."
"O-okay."
Without thinking further he turned his computer off
What the fuck had he just done!? He was ten and a half it was too soon to be a vigilante and he was NOT joining a rehab program especially when he hasn't even started being a vigilante!
Plus he didn't have enough training! Sure he did help Kacchan in training, but that was only because he trained with his Father basically every day while he was with him. That's besides the point! He was weak and he needed to get stronger.
Izuku took a moment to calm himself down, but he decided to distract himself from it for now.
He turned his computer back on and started looking at random websites, he liked the more illegal ones since he sometimes stumbled across some drama which was always great!
…
He had been listening to music after getting bored of looking though websites when he got-
"An email?"
Who could be emailing him? He opened the email… it was from the red shoe community? What the hell is that?
It was an invite to join an exclusive server, what did that mean?
So Izuku did what anyone would do he looked it up.
…
After a while of looking at red shoes and a lot of hacking he found the answer, the red shoe community was a community of quirkless people and people who were diagnosed wrong and had the double pinkie joint but they still had a quirk some people did have quirks but were treated the same as the quirkless.
Izuku went straight to the email and accepted the invite as if it would disappear if he didn't.
Once he joined he was surprised to see it was rather normal, people just chatted and made group meetings as well as free therapy sessions for each other.
This made sense since quirkless lives were hard, he knew this because ok Hanako Suzuki his fake identity for school. Hanako was quirkless which made Izuku live the life of a quirkless boy.
The red shoes were something Izuku wore no matter the identity, he had a few pairs so that he could dye a pair if needed for an identity, since it would be suspicious if he wore the red shoes and the identity had a powerful quirk.
The red shoes also fit better since he Did have the extra pinkie joint, his quirk was just unique and though it was rare it did happen.
As he continued looking though the website he noticed they also had videos on self defense and fighting techniques, the comments said that if you followed the videos and practiced and trained every day then you would be at a pro level by 3 years!
Izuku knew he would have to start doing that but for now he would wait to start till summer at least he would be done when would be almost 14 when he would be done which would be perfect so he could be ready to start his vigilantism right as Kacchan was going to hopefully go to UA!
On the server there was a group chat for each age group and chats to find red shoes near you which is a cool way of saying quirkless people, Izuku found out that was a way to see who was quirkless.
This server was very hard to hack into and was well guarded so it was perfect for quirkless!
…
Now when Izuku went out he saw the world in new eyes, he noticed more! He started looking at peoples shoes more, He found that they were actually more common than Izuku thought and he found himself and waving at a few of them earning a smile in return.
Izuku felt nice. He was more happy to know that there were other people out there then he had thought!
:.—one week later—.:
Izuku had just accepted his first group invite from the red shoe community for all the newer people on the server, so he decided to go.
The meet up was at one of the trusted locations, the trusted locations they had were normally family businesses run by family families didn't judge or were similar to them.
Another type of trusted location could be a park or maybe one of the houses of the many people on the server.
Izuku had chosen to go to the meeting closest to where he lived, which was a 20 minute walk to a small cafe named 'quirky coffee'. Izuku like the name it was fun, he didn't expect to be greeted by a group of 15 people when he arrived in the back room of the café.
They chose the back rooms of these places just in case anyone came in and decided to attack them so they wouldn't put anyone in harm.
He had expected, maybe five people but not 15 he really thought there were very little people like him.
He looked around the room and found a seat and sat down next to someone who was currently writing their name down on a name tag and putting to put it on, it seemed everyone was doing that so Izuku took one and started to write.
After a few minutes and the group was a total of 21 people which was very surprising and the meeting started